IN THE NEWS: Berlin's Tempelhof Airport to Close

BERLIN — Sometimes you can read a city though a cultural landmark. Tempelhof Airport is Berlin’s open book.

On the eve of the 60th anniversary of the historic, American-led airlift to supply the besieged capital, the mayor is going ahead with plans to close the airport by year’s end. How sad. A last-minute campaign by his political opponents to save it through a citywide referendum late last month won a majority, but not enough Berliners turned out to make the vote official.